The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-06-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

been closed at co, 900.
COLUMBUS, Neb., is 10 have street rail-
ways and . motor line.
BOX car, complete, was built in four
hours at Admission, Ala.
THE American refugees In Canada are
talking Of forming club.
THE late Justice Woods estate is valued
At from $50, 900 " S2O0,0OO. ..~
A BRIDGE Is 10 be built across the Mis-
souri, river at Sioux City, Ia.
FINDLAY's maximum daily gas yield
would equal $500 tons of coal.
INVITATIONS keep coming to the Presi-
dent to visit various portions Of the coun-
try.
THE proposed monument TO General Lee
at Richmond, Va, will not be begun until
fall.
THE New York Legislature has declared
everlasting hostility TO the English spar
row.
A PRETTY town named Gladstone has
been founded In the San Gabriel valley,
California.
No LESS than $4,000 persons assembled the
Washington Monument during the year
ending April /.
THERE is "a village in Wales with name
containing seventy-two letters and TWEEN
ty-two syllables.
KANSAS will send $4,000 veterans to the
National encampment which is to be held
in st. Louis in September.
ASTRONOMERS are discovering a good
many Of those celestial tramps otherwise
known as comets, this year.
IN one Of the French schools there is a
ra1 ms tsyhi sh Ia IN no 90 ma
of lifting four times its weight.
AT a recent type-writing contest in New
York Miss NJ. G. Grant wrote 3S4 words in
four minutes and fOrty-two seconds.
FROM one tree recently felled at Bowers
vile, o., it is said that 400 fence posts
and twenty-five cords of stove wood were
cut.
The Shah OF Persia would like some
enterprising American capitalist to help
develop his kingdom by constructing rail-
ways.
SADIE MOVER, of Lansford, Pa, is ten
years old, weighs 1876 pounds, and is TAX
ing on fat at the rate Of two pounds a
week.
A RESIDENT of Savannah exhibits 124
large sweet potatoes, which were grown
on a single vine. They completely fill a
barrel.
PRoF. CARL BRAUN, of Bates College, says
that the Devils darning needle has no
sting at I'll, but ne eats millions Of mos
quitoes."
WALKISG conservatories is the latest
name for the fiorally decorated women
seen on the fashionable thoroughfares and
in snowy equipages.
DIVORCED women are barred from Queen
Victoria's receptions. This old rule is held
20 relgiously by the Queen, and she will
make no exceptions.
AFTER all it is consoling to reflect that
the American dollars taken over tn Eng
land by Henry Irving will be brought back
by Hon. Buffalo Bill.
THE British authorities have again de-
clared that the Gate City Guards of At
lanta, Ga, will not be permitted TO parade
On English territory.
1T is announced that IL will take fully six
months before the English government can
demonstrate by actual experiment wheth-
er coercion will coerce.
NV York has grocer named Coffey,
curied-hair dealer named Wilcomb, milk
dealers named Well and Water and a cloth
ing firm named Taylor a. Cutter.
THERE is considerable likelihood that at
least portion of the crown Jewels of
France will spend the summer at some one
of the American watering places.
Russia has decided that the Russian
language is good enough for Russian chill
dren, and this shall be the Language Of
education throughout the empire
ANGLERS in the State of New York are
being considerably annoyed by a law
which makes the catching of trout less
than six inches long a misdemeanor.
AN Alsatian who tattooed himself all
over with ''Vive In France" was impris.
Oned for six months when he came to be
examined for admission to the German
army.
THE New York hotel men are now so
well organized that out of the income
from $1,000 guests day they lose less than
one per cent. OF their profits by reason Of
beats.
BosToS doctor raises his solemn voice
against cotton stockings for winter wear
He says they are destroying the women of
New England with rheumatism and neu-
ralgia.
GLADSTONE has library containing IS.
600 volumes. Works on theology are tho
most numerous. He also has large depart
ments devoted to Shakespeare, Dante and
Homer.
When the time came for Theodore Baker
70 let tho sheriff OF Las Vegas know that
he was ready 10 be hanged he said; "Let
her go, Gallagher" and died without a
struggle.
SoNERopE strollod into the sanctum OF a
Mississippi editor, and addressed him as
"a fostering s7Pa On the body polite. The
intruder win hele his meals in bed until
further notnfe